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-Stetson

Tech News TL;DR

This week’s IT and tech news in 5-minutes-ish or less

Cyber-Security

FBI: U.S. lost record $12.5 billion to online crime in 2023

Hackers impersonate U.S. government agencies in BEC attacks

VMware fixes critical sandbox escape flaws in ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion

NSA shares zero-trust guidance to limit adversaries on the network

BlackCat ransomware turns off servers amid claim they stole $22 million ransom

Ukraine claims it hacked Russian Ministry of Defense servers

North Korea hacks two South Korean chip firms to steal engineering data

Hackers target FCC, crypto firms in advanced Okta phishing attacks

Artificial Intelligence

Political deepfakes are spreading like wildfire thanks to GenAI

Understanding the nature of generative AI

Here’s something else AI can do: expose bad infosec to give cyber-crims a toehold in your organization

Copilot can't stop emitting violent, sexual images, says Microsoft whistleblower

Anthropic unlocks Claude 3, claims it's better than ChatGPT and Gemini

Ema, a ‘Universal AI employee,’ emerges from stealth with $25M

Musk joins OpenAI lawsuit queue, says there's nothing 'open' about it

The Who’s Who of AI just chipped in to fund humanoid robot startup Figure

Misc

World-plus-dog booted out of Facebook, Instagram, Threads

IP address X-posure now a feature on Musk's social media thing

Employees saved Musk from himself over Twitter Files

Some Intel Core chips keep crashing, game devs complain

Google adds new developer fees as part of the Play Store’s DMA compliance plan

LinkedIn's turn to fall over: Outage hits thinkfluencer hub

Apple's trademark tight lips extend to new iPhone, iPad zero-days

Microsoft drags Windows Subsystem for Android into the trash

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